Achuvoldrach Burn
Shieling(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Achuvoldrach Burn
Classification Shieling(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 5322
Site Number NC55NE 17
NGR NC 554 588
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5322
- Council Highland
- Parish Tongue
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC55NE 17 554 588.
NC 554 588. Oval enclosures, 7.5m by 5.5m, 7m by 4m and 4m by 2.5m on the south bank of the burn below the 250ft contour.
T C Welsh 1973
These are the remains of shielings. There are four in number varying from 3.5 by 2.5m to 6.5 by 6.0m overall. One retains a wall up to 0.8m high of roughly-coursed large stone blocks to single block width; the other three are mainly reduced to turf and stone footings. The shielings lie in haughland, enclosed by an old bank, in a loop of the Achvoldrach Burn; rig and furrow cultivation is suspected but a heavy bracken overgrowth obscures the details.
Surveyed at 1:10 000
Visited by OS (JM) 5 September 1978
